Chicken-brooder.



No. 853,038. "PATENTED MAY 7, 1907.

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CHICKEN BROODER,

APPLICATION FILED 11170.8, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED DEC. B, 1906.

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WILLIAM SOMERSALL, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

CHICKEN-BROQDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 7, 1907.

Application filed December 8, 1906. Serial No. 346,979.

T0 ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, XVILLIAMH. SOMER- SALL, of Boston, in the State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Chicken-Brooders, of which the following is a specification.

The invention consists in a brooding compartment provided with a ceiling of transparent glass and a hover immediately be neath said ceiling having an open work top and hanging curtains, substantially as herein described.

The invention consists further in details of construction.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a cross-section partly in elevation of my improved brooder. Fig. 2 is a plan on line 22- of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a sectional view on an enlarged scale through the hover and-heater. Fig. 4: is a plan view of the hover.

A is the chicken house, or a box about 30 inches square and of a height as shown, but the exact proportions are not essential, forming the casing of my improved brooder. A A A A", are the walls of the said box, or chicken house, and A is cover for the same, suitably hinged at a.

F is the floorformed of smooth matched boards, and Gr the ceiling of the compartment M in which the chickens are confined and brooded, the said floor F having a hole at the middle through which passes a heater H, presently to be described, the outer Wall of a portion of which closely iits said hole in said floor, as shown. The ceiling G of the compartment M is formed of two plates of window glass or other suitably transparent substance hinged to the walls of the compartment and cut away at their adjoining edges, as shown, to permit the passage of pipe D forming a part of the heating apparatus, as will be described. These transparent plates of the ceiling G- are supported by an inner lining (L2 of the walls of the compartment M, and upon cross-beams B which in turn are supported on a wire frame a forming the top of" a hover, V, which will presently be described.

"J is a door in one of the walls of compartment M.

F is the floor of compartment M which may be termed the cellar of the chicken house or box, A, being immediately under the brooding compartment M, while F is the ground or the bottom of the said chicken house or box.

L is a drawer in the middle of wall A in compartment M about 5 inches wide and of suitable height, there being attached thereto a false floor or thin strip of wood or metal, Z, of the same width extending over the floor F beyond the middle of said floor and carrying, as shown, an oil lamp L oil which T is the oil tank, T the throat, T the burner, and t the lamp wick regulator.

The heater H is made of sheet metal and comprises an outer drum 0 that extends through an opening in the floor F of the hover compartment, the lower portion 0 thereof being of greater diameter than the body and projecting beneath said floor. Said outer drum is closed at its lower end, which is supported by means hereinafter described just above the level of the top of the burner oi" the lamp, so that the fiame from the lamp will extend into the lower chamber of the inner drum. This chamber is connected with the upper chamber D by a plurality of fines d, the solid portion. D oi the top of said lower chamber between said flues acting as a battle to direct the products of combustion into the flues.

D is a pipe extending from the chamber D into the compartment M O, 0, etc., are air holes in the ring chamber extension to admit to said extension and chamber a and c from the compartment M fresh air which has entered said compartment M through a finger-hole, P, in drawer Lby means of which the said drawer L and with it the lamp L are pulled out of or pushed back into operative position, the said air after being heated, as will be described, passing through holes O O near the top of the ring chamber 0 into the compartment M just below the ceiling G, or rather into a hover, V, within said compartment, which will presently be described. The smoke or fumes from the flame of the lamp strike against'the plate D by which they are deflected so as to enter the pipes d, d, whence they pass into the chamber D and then through the pipe D into the compartment M The air entering the outer drum of the heater through the openings 0 circulates freely about the flues or pipes 61 before passing out through the openings 0. air becomes heated in its passage through the ring chamber 0 and about the said hotair pipes, and that it nowhere mingles with the smoke or fumes from the lamp-L.

P, P are ventilating holes in compart- It is thus evident that fresh IIO ment M through which the smoke or fumes from pipe D finally pass into the open air.

The water-tight vessel W having a hole at the middle for the passage of the chimney or pipe D is partially filled with water through the water gate to and then placed in position at the top of the heater in the depression of the ring chamber 0, as shown. The water in the tank W once heated in the manner indicated in the drawings, "i. 6., by the smoke and fumes in chamber D and pipe D and the hot air in fresh-air or ring chamber a which was once cold, will retain suflicient heat throughout a night to prevent harm to the chickens, should the lamp go out.

The top of the water-tight vessel overhangs the outer walls of the ring chamber 0, as shown, and carries props r, 1, extending up to wires win the top of the hover, which will next be described. This hover, V, consists of an open top frame 17., already mentioned, formed of wires, like an umbrella frame, suitably set in a ring n which closely fits over the pipe or chimney D and rests upon the wa ter-tight vessel W, the said wires extending out just under the transparent ceiling, G, so as to lie above rather more than one-half of the floor space of compartment M, while from a ring n connecting the outer ends of said wires hang, like a portiere, curtains or strips of felt arranged to break joints, and reaching to or nearly to the floor F. It is obvious that by merelylifting the cover A of the chicken house, the chicken raiser at any time may see through the transparent ceiling G and the open top of the hover, every part of the floor F, and every chicken on the floor, both those within and those without the hover, Without movement of the hover and without affecting the temperature of any part of the compartment in which the chickens are brooded.

The said ring chamber extension 0 of the heater H s reads out from the ring chamber 0 beneath t 1e floor F, as shown, and the said heater is held in position in said floor, as shown, by screw-hooks K of L-shape screwed into the floor from below and having their hooks o handles turned beneath chamber extension 0 It is evident that this brooder may be readily taken down and the parts packed within a small space for shipping.

I claim,

1. A chicken brooder, having a compartment provided with a suitable floor, a transparent ceiling and a hover having an open top-frame and hanging curtains.

and the ceiling of the mi 2. A chicken brooder, havin a compart-' ment provided with a suitable i oor, a transparent ceiling. a hover within said com artment and having an open top-frame an curtains hanging from the outer circumference thereof to the floor of said compaitment, and a central heater passing through. said hover.

3. The herein described chicken brooder comprising three compartments arranged one above another, a hover having an open top and hanging curtains arranged, within the middle compartment, a heating .a paratus extending through the floor, of sai middle compartment into the hover, a lamp within the lower compartment adapted to heat said heating apparatus, a movable roof for the upper compartment, and a transparent body forming the floor for said rapper compartment e compartment.

4 -A chicken brooder, having a compartment containing a hover, a heater comprising an outer drum extending through the floor of said compartment into the hover and having suitable air inlet and discharge openings, an inner drum consisting of lower and upper chambers and a plurality of fines connecting said chambers, a discharge flue extending rom the upper chamber of said inner drum through the top of the hover com artment, a lamp arranged to discharge pro nets of combustion into the lower chamber of the inne: drum, and a water vessel supported by said drums. Y

5. A chicken brooder, having a compartment containing a hover, a heater comprising an outer drum extending through the floor of said compartment into the hove the lower end of said drum being of greater di ameter than the po tion thereof within the hover and projecting beneath the floor of the hover compartment, said drum having suitable air inlet apertures formed therein beneath the floor of the hover compartment and air discharge outlets formed in its walls within the hover, an inner drum consisting of lower and upper chambers and a plurality of Hues connecting said chambers, a dischage flue extending from the upper chamber of the inner drum through the top of the hover compartment, and a lamp arranged to discharge products of combustion into the inner drum, and supports for said drums depending from the floor of the hover compartment.

WILLIAM H. SOMERSALL.

l/Vitnesses WILLIAM W. SWAN, IDA E. I-IANDREN. 

